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Episode 296: How to Avoid Inadvertently Giving Your Kids Sexual Hangups
18 september 2025 · 55 min
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We all want to raise kids without sexual hang-ups, but a lot of Christian parents are accidentally creating the very problems they're trying to avoid. Rebecca and I dive into the three biggest ways this happens: being way too open about your own sex life with your kids (no, they don't need to know what you and your husband did last night), making a federal case out of normal teenage sexual development like masturbation, and approaching pornography with so much shame and "sin talk" that you actually make the problem worse. But here’s the good news: our course, The Whole Story, will give you the tools and language to appropriately talk about all of these things!
Then Keith joins me to tackle that age-old marriage question about whether wives just need to have more sex to make husbands nicer - spoiler alert: you're asking the wrong question entirely, and obligation sex isn't going to save your marriage.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Our books She Deserves Better, The Great Sex Rescue, and The Marriage You Want
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 295: Does More Sex Make Marriage Happier?
11 september 2025 · 54 min
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We're constantly told that more sex will fix our marriages, but the research tells a completely different story. When couples are simply told to increase frequency without addressing quality, satisfaction, and women's actual experiences, it often backfires and decreases desire altogether. The real predictor of marital happiness isn't how often you're having sex—it's whether that sex is mutually satisfying, intimate, and pleasurable for both people. Unfortunately, evangelical sex advice keeps pushing obligation sex messages that treat women's exhaustion and needs as obstacles to overcome rather than valid concerns. It's time we start asking better questions about what makes sex actually good instead of just demanding more of it.
OUR SPONSOR:
Check out the book Better Ways to Read the Bible--to transform the way you see Scripture, and let it come alive again if it's been used as a weapon against you.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
The Orgasm Course
Psychology Today article on sexual frequency and happiness
Focus on the Family State of Marriage in America survey
The Whole Story puberty course for kids (coupon code: PODCAST)
Our reel about the 24 hour rule
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 294: 4 Christian Women Talk Menopause--and Perimenopause!
4 september 2025 · 1 uur 18 min
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I brought together three dear friends to have an honest conversation about perimenopause and menopause because so many of you have been asking about it. We shared our real stories and talked about the challenges like brain fog, weight changes, and sexual adjustments, and my dry eyes that nearly drove me crazy! But here's what I want you to know: menopause isn't just about suffering through symptoms. Each of us found our voices during menopause, finally standing up in toxic relationships and getting angry about toxic teachings we’d tolerated for years.
OUR SPONSOR:
Check out the book Better Ways to Read the Bible--to transform the way you see Scripture, and let it come alive again if it's been used as a weapon against you.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
The Orgasm Course
Merry Lin's book Rebecoming
Merry Lin's LinkTree
Merry's Bare Marriage podcast episode with me
Kelita Haverland's song The Strong One
Rosemary Flaaten's program at The Center for Healthy Relationships
The We Do Not Care Club video
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 293: Better Ways to Read the Bible feat. Zach Lambert
28 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 26 min
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What do you do when you WANT to love the Bible, but you find yourself feeling defeated, hopeless, unseen? What if all the things you’ve experienced in church and in the wider Christian community have left you feeling adrift when you open Scripture? Zach Lambert’s new book Better Ways to Read the Bible shows us that everything we’ve been taught about the Bible may actually be new ways to read it—that miss the whole point! This encouraging conversation encourages us to get back to seeing the Bible through the lens of Jesus.
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Zach Lambert’s book Better Ways to Read the Bible
Zach's Substack: Public Theology
Social media: @ZackwLambert on all platforms
The Whole Story course - Bare Marriage's puberty/sex education course for parents
Free book studies for "The Great Sex Rescue" and "She Deserves Better"
Restore Austin - Zach's church in Austin, Texas
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 292: Hear Sheila Answer Men’s Questions about Healthy Marriage & Sexuality
21 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 10 min
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Recently Sheila was on the Three Percent podcast, talking about what healthy marriage looks like. The hosts asked Sheila questions a lot of skeptical men had—so we thought the bigger Bare Marriage universe needed to hear this! Listen in as they play devil’s advocate, and ask the questions so many men have when they hear what we say about libido, about mental load, about porn, and more! Let’s change the convo in a healthy way. And thanks to the Three Percent podcast for letting us share this recording!
CHECK OUT OUR COURSES:
The Orgasm Course
Boost Your Libido
The Whole Story to teach your kids about sex & puberty
LINKS MENTIONED:
The 3% Podcast:
Our new FREE book studies for She Deserves Better and The Great Sex Rescue
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
And check out our Merch, or any of our courses!
Join our email list!
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 291: How Professor Neil Reaches Young Men Stuck in Misogyny
14 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
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Sheila Wray Gregoire interviews Professor Neil, a popular social media creator who critiques toxic masculinity and problematic topics he finds in the manosphere. They discuss how certain Christian pastors and influencers spread harmful messages about gender roles, sex, and marriage that mirror incel ideology. Through reviewing harmful clips from pastors Josh Howerton & Josh McPherson, professor Neil shares his approach to changing minds through facts and research.
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FIND PROFESSOR NEIL:
Instagram
Tiktok
Facebook
youTube
Substack
Main website
Support the show
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Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 290: What Does Authoritarianism Have to Do with Complementarianism? (with a test!)
7 augustus 2025 · 1 uur 14 min
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How do we reach people still in evangelicalism about toxic teachings? I read an amazing book called On Authoritarians by Bob Altemeyer which talks about how people get to be authoritarian, and the nature of authoritarians. And then shows (horrifyingly) how evangelicalism overlaps with authoritarianism! These insights can actually help us learn how to reach people still wading in toxic teachings!
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BOOKS MENTIONED:
The free book The Authoritarians (includes the quizzes you can take to see where you score!)
She Deserves Better
The Good Girl's/Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex (great for bridal showers!)
OTHER LINKS MENTIONED:
Podcast with Terran Williams
Podcast with Marg Mowczko
Our toolkit to use to talk to friends/pastors about our findings
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 289: Why Fiction Makes You a Better Person (Why We Don't Hate ALL Books!)
26 juni 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
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In this season finale of the Bare Marriage Podcast, Rebecca, Joanna, Connor, and Josiah discuss the powerful benefits of reading fiction for personal growth, empathy development, and critical thinking. They share their personal journeys back to reading after University & adult life interrupted their childhood love of books, explore scientific research on how fiction affects the brain, and provide practical advice for getting back into reading. The episode concludes with an inspiring poem about women's value and calling by Porsche Vu (The Poetic Activist).
BECOME ONE OF OUR MONTHLY DONORS:
We're aiming for 50 new monthly donors, for even as little as $10 a month! For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko Foundation
KEEP UP WITH SHEILA THIS SUMMER:
Join my Substack! It's free.
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
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LINKS MENTIONED:
Porsche Veu on Instagram (The Poetic Activist), and her reel
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 288: Is Sex a Want or a Need?
19 juni 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
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Is sex is a human need within marriage? Let's address the tension between those who see "need" language as potentially coercive and those who feel legitimate sexual desires shouldn't be shamed. Psychological research does classify sex as a human need, but the real issue is how couples can co-create a reality for a mutually satisfying sexual relationship. Rather than pressuring reluctant partners, couples should focus on building marriages where both people genuinely want and enjoy sexual intimacy.
BECOME ONE OF OUR MONTHLY DONORS:
We're aiming for 50 new monthly donors, for even as little as $10 a month! For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko Foundation
KEEP UP WITH SHEILA THIS SUMMER:
Join my Substack! It's free.
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
And check out our Merch, or any of our courses!
Join our email list!
LINKS MENTIONED:
"Diamonds are forever and other fairytales" study from 2015
Podcast with Beth Allison Barr and Miranda Zapor Cruz that debunked the father influence statistic
Check out our Orgasm course and our Boost Your Libido course
Download our 12-point rubric and scorecard for healthy sexuality
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 287: What is “Headship” in Ephesians 5 and 1 Corinthians 11? Feat. Marg Mowczko
12 juni 2025 · 1 uur 16 min
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In this episode of the Bare Marriage Podcast, I am talking with Biblical Greek scholar Marg Mowczko about the true meaning of "headship" in the Bible. Marg reveals that the Greek word "kephale" (head) doesn't typically mean "leader" or "authority" in ancient literature, and that no verse actually commands men to lead their wives. Instead, head-body metaphors are used in Scripture to describe unity and mutual care and as a picture of growing into the likeness of Christ for ALL Christians. Together, Marg and I talk about the Biblical evidence of Paul's support for women in ministry roles. We also take a moment to discuss the best Bible versions for more accurate translation in key passages about submission and hierarchy.
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THINGS MENTIONED
Marg’s website
Marg’s patreon
Marg’s blog post on the best Bible version
Everything on 1 Corinthians 11
Everything on Ephesians 5
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 286: Our Best Christian Dating Advice--that you've all been asking for!
5 juni 2025 · 57 min
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After a recent social media AMA, we noticed a ton of you wanted us to tackle dating - red flags, green flags, how to choose a great partner. Rebecca and I have been avoiding this topic since we both married young and have limited adult dating experience, but we DO have evidence-based research to share. We're addressing why we need to stop telling singles "God is just teaching you patience" (it's a numbers game!), the "Burn the Haystack Method" for online dating, why some might need to relocate for better options, and the hard truths about red flags versus settling. Fair warning: we're going to make some people uncomfortable, but if you want research-backed advice over platitudes, this episode's for you.
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THINGS MENTIONED
Dr Jennie Young & The Burned Haystack Method
Our podcast on why Evangelical Women aren't marrying evangelical men
Join my Substack to keep up with us while the blog is on hiatus for June and July
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 285: Are Soul Ties Real? Overcoming a Purity Culture Teaching
29 mei 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
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“Soul ties” refers to the belief that when you have sex with someone, you are now joined in the spiritual realm, and that “tie” impedes your ability to ever experience freedom if you marry someone else. Often people claim you have to go through a specific prayer to break the tie, or an exorcism. But is this idea biblical? And does it help or hurt? Today Joanna Sawatsky shares our results of believing in soul ties, and we discuss different ways to talk about heartache and trauma.
PRODUCT HIGHLIGHT:
Our puberty course The Whole Story
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THINGS MENTIONED
Our book She Deserves Better
My series on Soul Ties
John Eldredge’s Podcast series on Soul Ties
Lisa Bevere Reel with misinformation
The domestic violence website with steps from breaking trauma bonds
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 284: The Problems with the Book His Needs, Her Needs by Willard Harley
22 mei 2025 · 1 uur 45 min
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Let's take a close look at the book His Needs, Her Needs by Willard Harley! Bethany Jantzi and Ngina Otiende join me to look at some of the things that we find problematic about the book--and explain why evangelicalism needs better resources!
RESOURCES:
Get our one-sheet download on His Needs, Her Needs
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
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LINKS
Find Ngina Otiende on Facebook, Instagram, and at her website Intentional Today
Find Bethany Jantzi on Instagram and at her website Free from Control
Check out our newest book The Marriage You Want, with stats about what really builds intimacy
Download our rubric on how His Needs, Her Needs (and other books!) scored on sex
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 283: When the Church Stole Your Sex Life
15 mei 2025 · 1 uur 14 min
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What happens when church doesn’t seem safe? Or when, in retrospect, you realize it wasn’t, even if you threw yourself into it at the time? Today Dr. Andrew Bauman joins us to talk about his new book Safe Church, and then Rebecca and Sheila read reader’s stories about how the church stole their sex lives—and what we can do about it.
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
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LINKS
Andrew Bauman’s book Safe Church
Andrew Bauman on Facebook
Andrew’s guest post on Safe Church
Courses:
Our Puberty Course (The Whole Story)
Our Orgasm Course
Our Libido Course
My blog series on sexual recovery
Our book The Great Sex Rescue
Our book She Deserves Better
Our Good Girl’s/Good Guy’s Guides to Great Sex (great for engaged couples)
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 282: What Makes Men Cheat? New Research Spotlight
8 mei 2025 · 1 uur 1 min
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It's time to walk through some super interesting studies that have recently been published--and see what they say about the intersection of infidelity and beliefs in male hierarchy. Keith joins Sheila to react to the studies!
OUR SPONSOR:
Thank you to our sponsor, Zondervan and the book Saving Face. The church needs to get away from harmful tropes, and call us towards true community based on vulnerability and safety. Aimee Byrd points the way!
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko Foundation
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LINKS MENTIONED:
The Marriage You Want
Study on how affairs aren't linked to sex frequency, and the post about it
Study on how sexism affects infidelity
Power to Flirt Study
Differences in Solitary vs. Dyadic Sexual Desire study
Study on Heroism by Gender
The IFS World Map 2019 (abuse stats are on pp. 35&36)
John Piper on how complementarianism protects women, and Rachel Held Evans' response
OTHER RESEARCH DEEP DIVE PODCASTS:
Pink and Blue Brains? What the research says about gender and brain differences
Why Sex Is Like Chef Boyardee
New Research on Obligation Sex
New Research on Ogling and Dressing for Attention
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 281: You Shouldn't Iron Your Cheating Husband's Clothes--Plus We Answer Your Questions!
1 mei 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
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It's an Ask Me Anything episode! Keith and I open talking about the viral video where a woman claims that she felt called by God to iron her husband's clothes before he left for the weekend to be with his mistress. And then Rebecca and I answer your questions about drawing boundaries, dating, protecting kids from abuse in church, and more!
OUR SPONSOR:
Thank you to our sponsor, Zondervan and the book Saving Face. The church needs to get away from harmful tropes, and call us towards true community based on vulnerability and safety. Aimee Byrd points the way!
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko Foundation
And check out our Merch, or any of our courses!
Join our email list!
LINKS MENTIONED:
Our book She Deserves Better
Our new book The Marriage You Want
Last week's podcast on rumination and our one-sheet download for The Love Dare
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 280: The Problems with the Book The Love Dare--And How It Papers Over Real Problems
24 april 2025 · 57 min
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The Love Dare, based on the movie Fireproof, has been a huge best-selling marriage book for two decades. But does it actually contain good advice? Today on episode 280 of the Bare Marriage podcast, we show how The Love Dare simply regurgitates all the typical harmful evangelical marriage advice, telling women to make themselves smaller; never bring up issues; paper over problems; and, of course, never divorce, even if you’re being abused.
OUR SPONSOR:
Thank you to our sponsor, Zondervan and the book Saving Face. The church needs to get away from harmful tropes, and call us towards true community based on vulnerability and safety. Aimee Byrd points the way!
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko Foundation
And check out our Merch, or any of our courses!
Join our email list!
LINKS MENTIONED:
Our Harmful Materials stickers to put on your problematic books
All of our one sheets:
Our new book The Marriage You Want
Join Sheila on her social media channels: Instagram, YouTube, Threads, Facebook
Our podcast on forgiveness after trauma
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 279: Saving Face: Finding My Self, God, and One Another Outside a Defaced Church (feat. Aimee Byrd)
17 april 2025 · 1 uur 5 min
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What if vulnerability and authenticity are vital for true community? And what if we can never truly know God, and each other, until we know ourselves? It's episode 279 of the Bare Marriage podcast, featuring Aimee Byrd talking about her new book!
Aimee Byrd's Book Saving Face
Aimee Byrd's Substack
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko Foundation
And check out our Merch, or any of our courses!
Join our email list!
LINKS TO THINGS MENTIONED:
Our new book The Marriage You Want
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 278: Why Don't Evangelical Women Want to Marry Evangelical Men?
10 april 2025 · 1 uur 11 min
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Al Mohler, president of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, recently did a podcast bemoaning the fact that young women, unlike young men, are giving up on the "creation order" and abandoning marriage. But he distorts the argument, and misses the main problem: Women want to get married, but too many of the men available don't make good partners.
WITH THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR:
Beth Allison Barr's insightful and important new book Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry. Learn how women got pushed out of ministry positions in favour of marriage, and what we can do about it.
My recent article about Becoming the Pastor's Wife
TO SUPPORT US:
Join our Patreon for as little as $5 a month to support our work
For tax deductible donations in the U.S., support Good Fruit Faith Initiative through the Bosko Foundation
And check out our Merch, or any of our courses!
Join our email list!
LINKS TO THINGS MENTIONED:
Our new book The Marriage You Want
Al Mohler's "Briefing"
The original Wall Street Journal Article: American Women Are Giving up on Marriage
European study about fertility and attitude towards household tasks
Time study about mothers based on marital status
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 277: Why Emotions Aren't Feminine (and Why Women Aren't More Emotional!)
3 april 2025 · 1 uur 9 min
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So many evangelical pastors teach that men are rational while women are emotional. But is this true? And if women are more emotionally mature than men, then doesn't that mean that men need to learn from women? Listen in as Keith and Sheila dissect several clips from Josh Howerton, Emerson Eggerichs, Josh McPherson, and Matt Walsh.
WITH THANKS TO OUR SPONSOR:
Beth Allison Barr's insightful and important new book Becoming the Pastor's Wife: How Marriage Replaced Ordination as a Woman's Path to Ministry. Learn how women got pushed out of ministry positions in favour of marriage, and what we can do about it.
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Our new book The Marriage You Want
Open letter to Focus on the Family
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Carolyn Custis James' Maelstrom
Josh Howerton clip
Matt Walsh post
Our podcast on emotions with Becky Castle Miller
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Episode 276: Is Reading Romance Novels for Women the Same as Watching Porn?
27 maart 2025 · 59 min
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We know watching porn is wrong--but are romance novels just as bad? We've often heard that comparison made: Sure, guys watch porn, but remember that women read novels! Today Rebecca and I talk about when the comparison may be fair, and when it isn't. And we ask: how should we see romance novels or erotic novels? Listen in and see what you think--as we try to reason it through!
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Episode 275: Becoming the Pastor's Wife feat. Beth Allison Barr
20 maart 2025 · 1 uur 8 min
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What if marriage replaced ordination as a woman's path to ministry? What if we've systematically erased the stories of women ministering in the past, and in so doing silenced women's voices and removed opportunities to serve Jesus? Today Beth Allison Barr joins us to talk about her new book Becoming the Pastor's Wife!
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
Our new book The Marriage You Want (read the Amazon reviews!)
Everywhere you can get it
Keith's series on The Danvers Statement
Our Podcast on the Danvers Statement
Beth's original podcast with us about The Making of Biblical Womanhood:
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Episode 274: The Marriage You Actually Want
13 maart 2025 · 53 min
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The Marriage You Want is LIVE! Our book launched this week, and in this week's podcast we take a broad, investigative look into the state of evangelical marriage publishing, and why there has very little change in the top 10 books in decades. Plus what it means to have SAFE and HEALTHY marriage advice! Come celebrate with us in episode 274 of Bare Marriage!
THE MARRIAGE YOU WANT
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
Download our healthy sexuality rubric and see how the bestselling marriage books fared!
Our podcast on the 5 faulty premises of Christian books
Our analysis of the Christian marriage publishing industry
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Episode 273: Are Traditionally Christian Marriages Linked to More Immaturity? The Data Speaks!
6 maart 2025 · 57 min
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It's episode 273 of the Bare Marriage podcast! We found that certain beliefs are correlated most with emotional immaturity--passive aggressiveness; outbursts of anger; emotional dysregulation. In our research for our book The Marriage You Want, we found that when couples believe the husband should have the tie breaking vote, they score lower on maturity.
Is this because emotionally immature people are drawn to these beliefs? Or do these beliefs hamper maturity? Today we talk about why it's actually both, and what that means for our own personal responsibility.
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
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Check out our post on why complementarianism is linked to emotional immaturity and toxic church cultures
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Episode 272: Is "Acts of Service" Love Language Really a Cry for Help? All New Bonus Stats!
27 februari 2025 · 42 min
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What if the "acts of service" love language is masking something else--the totally unequal division of labor that many couples have, and Gary Chapman ignores? Plus does the "physical touch" love language mask something wrong in the bedroom? ALL NEW BONUS STATS today! Some of them aren't even in the new book!
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THINGS MENTIONED
Our post about the study showing that the love languages are junk science
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Episode 271: What the Unfairness Threshold Tells Us About Marriage (and Mental Load!)
20 februari 2025 · 58 min
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Episode 270: What Does Prioritizing Marriage Look Like? Plus Do You Have to Choose Between Being a Good Wife and a Good Mom?
13 februari 2025 · 1 uur 15 min
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Prioritizing your marriage can be tough. How do we spend enough time together? Do we need more date nights? And MOMS—don’t forget to be a wife first and a mom second! But in all this talk, are we missing the bigger point? If we’re functioning as a team, doing life together, then affection will grow. But if you see your kids as threats to your marriage, or think you can connect with a date night when you haven’t been in the trenches together all week, you’re not going to feel close. A new way of thinking about prioritizing your relationship—without the GUILT! Based on new stats from The Marriage You Want!
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Episode 269: The Marriage Hierarchy of Needs—and Why Compromise Doesn’t Work
6 februari 2025 · 54 min
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Ever tried to find a compromise when you’re having an argument—but even the compromise doesn’t seem fair? In today’s podcast we explain why—using what we call The Marriage Hierarchy of Needs. We talk about this in our new book The Marriage You Want! Basically, compromise only works if you both start off on equal footing. But if one of you is already doing more than their fair share, compromise just makes it even more unequal. So let’s talk about foundation vs. frills, how to overcome entitlement, and why unfairness can’t go on forever!
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Episode 268: Why Data Shows That Teamwork, Not Hierarchy, Is the Key to a Great Marriage!
30 januari 2025 · 58 min
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What is the biggest key to a great marriage? Teamwork! Let’s talk about how teamwork is associated with all the good outcomes we want for marriage—better sex; feeling close; resolving conflict—everything! But complementarianism, on the other hand, is associated with all the bad outcomes. Good outcomes and bad outcomes tend to travel together—and complementarianism travels with the bad stuff! Hear about all our new data from our new book The Marriage You Want!
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
Reel from BrandonTalksMarriage
Our reel on whether women want leaders or someone to take initiative
The podcast that reel was based on (Marriage on the Rock)
The Gospel Coalition reel about doing “risky” things
The original podcast where Cynthia Westfall appeared
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Episode 267: Why Evangelical Marriage Advice Often Backfires
23 januari 2025 · 1 uur 7 min
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In our research looking at marital and sexual satisfaction among evangelicals, we’ve found that over and over again our best-selling books, and our megachurch pastors, teach things that are shown to lead to worse outcomes. Why? What’s going on? In today’s podcast we share the faulty premise that is at the heart of evangelical marriage advice, and the four toxic teachings that flow from that false premise. But when we fix that first premise—then our advice can finally get healthy (and Jesus-centered!)
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
Access our rubric scoring the various best-selling marriage and sex books
Our podcast talking about the problems with the “research” supporting Love & Respect
Our podcast with the issues with Marriage on the Rock
The Voddie Baucham clip
Our round up of the issues with the book The Excellent Wife
The Jimmy Evans clip
The Tim Keller clip
The Lisa and Francis Chan clip #1
The Lisa and Francis Chan clip #2
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Episode 266: Demolishing the Love and Respect Dichotomy Definitively (with Data)
16 januari 2025 · 1 uur 38 min
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The idea that men need respect while women need love has been treated as gospel truth in the evangelical world. Best-sellers have been written based on it; it informs almost every marriage sermon. What if it’s not true? Using data from our marriage survey of 7000 people, we show how reality is very different—and what this means for how we should talk about marriage!
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
Take our marriage survey yourself as a date night!
Our synopsis of everything wrong with Love & Respect (with other posts and podcasts linked in the bottom)
Our open letter to Focus on the Family
Jonathan Pokluda clip
Female Influencer clip #1
Female influencer clip #2
Josh and Jana Howerton
Josh Howerton “Give him a crown”
Steve Gaines’ sermon on respect
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Episode 265: Culture Wars vs. Jesus: How to Not Get Sucked in To Toxic Teachings
9 januari 2025 · 1 uur 3 min
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So many of us got sucked into believing toxic stuff about marriage and sex in the evangelical church! But unless we figured out WHY we believed that, we’re likely to get suckered in again to toxic stuff—just DIFFERENT toxic stuff. So today, Rebecca and I are doing a postmortem, looking at what it is about church that leaves us vulnerable to believing things that are toxic and rather easy to see through. Let’s become critical thinkers, so we don’t get sucked in again!
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Check out our new plans for 2025, with links to all our social media channels
The Great Sex Rescue--the Kindle sale is over but the paperback's on sale!
Focus on the Family posts about Jane and John
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Episode 264: It’s the Peer Reviewed Celebration! Plus a Plea to Respect Science
19 december 2024 · 1 uur 21 min
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Our big announcement: We’re peer-reviewed! Our dataset for The Great Sex Rescue has now appeared in the November 2024 Sociology of Religion Journal. So let’s talk about what we found, but also ask: why are evangelicals so quick to dismiss science, but at the same time cling to bad interpretations of data if it suits their agenda? Can we become better critical thinkers?
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LINKS TO THINGS MENTIONED:
Our journal article Sanctified Sexism
The Great Sex Rescue (our book using this dataset)
Lisa Bevere Reel with misinformation
Fact Checking her claims
Shaunti Feldhahn claiming Christian researchers can’t be peer reviewed
Podcast where we dissected one of Shaunti Feldhahn’s survey questions
Dissecting another survey question
The One Sheet of the problems with For Women Only
Shaunti Feldhahn’s Statement about Us
Our statement in response
Analysis of Shaunti Feldhahn’s use of neuroscience research
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Episode 263: Even After Everything—Loving Anyway, Despite the Risks
12 december 2024 · 59 min
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Advent is normally a time of hopeful expectation. But what does it mean when our hopes have been dashed in the past? Stephanie Duncan Smith shares her stories of miscarriages and losses—as well as great celebrations, and what it means to embrace a life that is really messy. And we look at how we can celebrate the Incarnation by being Jesus’ hands and feet, seeing the work fighting sex trafficking that The Well House is doing. It’s the Christmas season, everyone!
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THINGS MENTIONED
Find Even After Everything
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Episode 262: Problems with Marriage on the Rock by Jimmy Evans
5 december 2024 · 1 uur 34 min
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Jimmy Evans started XO Marriage over 30 years ago, and his book Marriage on the Rock became a best-seller. He leads marriage conferences around the country. But for years he also Mark Driscoll on his leadership team. He got his start at Gateway Church under Robert Morris, who has been accused of grooming and sexually abusing a teen girl, starting when she was 12. And more recently audio of Evans’ bullying behavior has dropped. So let’s examine his book Marriage on the Rock—and we’ll find that he stresses one-sided sex as obligation; says dangerous things about abuse; and expects women to shoulder the mental and emotional load for the family.
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THINGS MENTIONED:
The audio of Jimmy Evans’ bullying behavior in the Daystar meeting
Evidence of Mark Driscoll being on the leadership team at XO Marriage
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Episode 261: Her Rites: The 6 Rites of Passage in a Woman’s Life feat. Christy Bauman
27 november 2024 · 1 uur 19 min
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Ever feel like your body is a stranger to you? Like you’re plagued with insecurity, can’t find peace in your relationships? What if it’s because we’re running away from part of who we are, and we haven’t been able to honor who God made us to be? Christy Bauman, a licensed therapist, noticed in her counseling that her clients often didn’t have a clear identity or were able to articulate who they were. So she invites us on a journey of recovering rites of passage—where we honor sacred moments in our lives, honor our birthright, honor who God made us to be. We honor the good and the bad; we lament what is lost but we celebrate what we’ve achieved. And when we’re able to do these things, we can finally be comfortable in our own skin! Join us for this deep and personal conversation.
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Things Mentioned in the Podcast:
Christy Bauman’s book Her Rites
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Our peer reviewed article in the Sociology of Religion journal
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Episode 260: Shame Must Switch Sides: It’s Not Shameful to NOT Want Pornified Sex
21 november 2024 · 1 uur 11 min
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Gisele Pelicot famously said that "shame must switch sides"--and I think that applies to the evangelical church! Over and over again over the last few years ,when male teachers have presented a pornified view of sex and women have said "no", women have been accused of being prudes. But it is okay to reject objectification. A close look at Josh Butler, Gary Thomas coercing women into sending nude photos, and more--all of whom called us ashamed of sex for saying no.
SPECIAL: The Great Sex Rescue is on major sale on Amazon right now! Get it here
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THINGS MENTIONED:
Ngina Otiende’s initial article about Gary Thomas
Our review of Gary Thomas’ book Married Sex
My original article about how Married Sex coerces nude photos
Our podcast where we talked about Gisele Pelicot
The Male Centric Sex podcast
Theology in the Raw episode with Josh Butler
Brett McCracken about Josh Butler
Twitter thread with Gary Thomas
Juli Slattery’s article quoting me
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Episode 259: Avoiding Power Struggles with Your Kids (Plus are you an unintentionally permissive parent?)
14 november 2024 · 1 uur 8 min
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Do you find yourself in constant power struggles with your kids? Do you feel like your kids too often set the terms of their cooperation? Or are you worried that you are too hard and demanding on them?
Well today I talk with Wendy Snyder, a positive parenting coach, as we get into the nitty gritty of how to find that balance between being authoritarian and overly permissive. Cut the drama, cut the power struggles, and learn how to thrive as a family!
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THINGS MENTIONED
Wendy's Website, Fresh Start Family
Find Wendy on Instagram
Listen to our last podcast with Wendy, Parenting without Yelling
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Episode 258: They’re Coming After Bluey Now? What’s Wrong with Involved Fathers?
7 november 2024 · 58 min
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Why are writers for The Gospel Coalition coming after the dad in the cartoon series Bluey? He’s an involved dad who loves his kids. Why are they so offended? Rick Pidcock joins Rebecca and Connor Lindenbach for a deep dive—and then Rebecca and Connor talk more about our anemic view of fatherhood.
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Things Mentioned
Rick Pidcock’s article about coming after Bluey
Jeremy Pryor’s article about Bluey turning fathers into mothers
Rick Pidcock's blog
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Episode 257: Little Girls in Church Parking Lots in BaptistLand
31 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 7 min
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Christa Brown was sexually assaulted dozens of times by her youth pastor when she was 15. She was made to repent and apologize to his wife. The pastor just got moved around from church to church for decades. When Christa’s daughter reached the same age Christa was when she was assaulted, she went public—and started the movement to push the SBC towards accountability for the sexual abuse crisis in their midst. She’s written a memoir called BaptistLand, and today we talk about Christa’s fight—and how SBC megachurch pastors today are still demonizing “little girls” rather than holding men accountable.
THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST:
Pick up our Great Sex Rescue Tookit—to help start important conversations to those close to you
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IMPORTANT LINKS:
Christa Brown’s book BaptistLand
Christa on Twitter
Christa on Substack
Read the Guideposts report
The original Houston Chronicle article
News article about the amicus brief filed by SBC entities AGAINST a sexual assault victim
Josh Howerton sermon clip
See the documentary For Our Daughters
Follow the Sons of Patriarchy podcast about Doug Wilson on Spotify
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The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
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Episode 256: How Should You Handle the Sex Talk with Your Kids?
24 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
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Talking to your kids about sex & puberty is awkward! And over the years the church has made some big mistakes. Today we talk about how to avoid the biggest ones--and some encouragement for how to do this with as little awkwardness as possible.
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THINGS MENTIONED:
Our book She Deserves Better
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The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
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Episode 255: For Our Daughters—Plus Why Sex Abuse Scandals Keep Happening
17 oktober 2024 · 1 uur 12 min
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We aren’t going to fix the abuse crisis in the church until we deal with the underlying beliefs that actually enable abuse. Today Kristin Kobes Du Mez joins us to talk about her new documentary For Our Daughters, which shows how beliefs about gender, power and politics that are rampant in the church actually contribute to abuse. And Pastor Trey Ferguson joins us to comment on a recent article he wrote explaining how evangelicalism’s views of sex, which ignore intimacy, contribute to abuse too.
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https://drcamden.com/book/
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THINGS MENTIONED:
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Kristin’s documentary For Our Daughters
The website for the film
Jesus and John Wayne
Pastor Trey’s article on Reframing Sex
Trey Ferguson’s Online Church
Trey Ferguson’s book Theologizin’ Bigger
Andy Savage’s bio on his new church’s website
My video about Andy Savage not returning to ministry
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The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
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Episode 254: The 5 Myths of Purity Culture with Dr. Camden Morgante
10 oktober 2024 · 1 uur
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We know purity culture hurt so many of us. But how do we actually move on and recover from purity culture? Today Dr. Camden Morgante joins us to look at the 5 myths of purity culture, and how to heal and get to the other side!
OUR FREE WEBINAR!
Join Rebecca and me as we host Camden for a FREE webinar looking more into these myths, where we find them, and where we go from here! It'll be a super fun hour with some prizes, games, and lots of inside scoop!
Monday, October 14, 8 pm EST. Sign up here
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST:
Dr. Camden's book Recovering from Purity Culture
Get Dr. Camden's pre-order bonuses!
Follow Dr. Camden online
Find Dr. Camden on Instagram
Support the show
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Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 253: The 93% Myth: That Stat That Says Fathers Are More Important Than Mothers Is Made Up!
3 oktober 2024 · 58 min
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Ever heard the stat from “a recent study” that found that, when a husband comes to Christ first, in 93% of cases the wife and kids follow, but when the wife comes to Christ first, it’s only 17%? Today Beth Allison Barr and Miranda Zapor Cruz, both academics looking into gender relations in church, join me to try to track down the source. Spoiler alert: People seem to have made this up about 30 years ago—and they keep quoting it! We look at what happens when churches assume this stat is true.
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THINGS MENTIONED:
Miranda Zapor Cruz’: The Myth of the 93%
Julie Roys’ podcast with Amanda Cunningham
Tim Clinton Clip
Danny Akin citing the “stat”
Josh Howerton clip (around 20:15)
J.D. Greear clip
The Baptist Press article
The Orthodox Barbie clip
The Christ Church of the Valley handbook with the “stat”
Matt Chandler saying he preaches to men: (around 36-37 minutes)
ABOUT MIRANDA ZAPOR CRUZ:
Find Miranda Zapor Cruz on Facebook
Order her book Faithful Politics
ABOUT BETH ALLISON BARR:
Find Beth Allison Barr on Threads
Pre-order Becoming the Pastor’s Wife
Our podcast on The Making of Biblical Womanhood
Support the show
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Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
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Episode 252: Flourishing Families
26 september 2024 · 1 uur 24 min
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We're all about healthy advice for marriage and sex. But what if evangelical teachings around parenting have also been messed up? And how can we parent in a healthy way? David and Amanda Erickson join us to talk about their new book The Flourishing Family, based on Scripture, brain science, attachment theory, and more. THIS is how we should parent!
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THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST
The Flourishing Family
Follow David and Amanda on Instagram
Follow them on Facebook
The clip of the Baptist pastor talking about spanking
Our post where we look at the research about spanking
Pre-Order The Marriage You Want (our new book coming in March!)
Support the show
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Check out her books:
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The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
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Episode 251: All About Orgasms! Let’s Close the Gap!
19 september 2024 · 1 uur 2 min
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The evangelical world has an orgasm gap of 47 points between husbands and wives. Only 48% of women orgasm almost always or always, and 33% orgasm never or rarely.
The good news is that if you're in that 33%--you can still get to the 48%!
Today Rebecca and I look back at all the other episodes we've talked about orgasms, and have a great time discussing how we can learn to help couples prioritize her pleasure!
THE ORGASM COURSE
It's on sale until Monday, September 23 at midnight! When you purchase the regular course, you'll get the men's version added for free!
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Things Mentioned in the Podcast
The Great Sex Rescue
Episode 74: You're Not Broken if Orgasm Is Elusive
Episode 92: All about Orgasms
Episode 129: Where Emerson Eggerichs Ignores Marital Rape (and doesn't understand women's arousal)
Episode 222: How Sex Is Like Chef Boyardee
Episode 168: The Myth of the Magic Penis
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Episode 250: Not All Men—But How Do We Tell?
12 september 2024 · 56 min
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We know it’s not all men who are predators. But it’s far too many. And a recent horrible court case in France is reminding women all over the world that far too many men are willing and eager to do the unthinkable. The only way to tell who is safe is to look at their words and their actions. And the words of far too many evangelical leaders and authors and pastors are straight up rape culture. After what happened to Gisele Pelicot, I’m not willing to put up with it anymore. No more Every Man’s Battle rape culture mindset in the church!
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LINKS
Our Sponsor:
Rebecoming: Come Out of Hiding to Live as Your God-Given Essential Self.
This amazing book is one of the best I’ve read to explain basic counseling concepts, and gives you practical exercises to work through as you try to get unstuck. Highly recommend!Things Mentioned
The 7 Point Evangelical Confession of 2024
Josh Howerton’s sermon clip
A synopsis of the horrible ordeal of Gisele Pelicot
The Great Sex Rescue
The Great Sex Rescue Toolkit
The Every Man’s Battle one sheet download
Coinswallow's post on Instagram
Check out Sheila's books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social …
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Episode 249: Rebecoming: Figuring Out Why You’re Stuck feat. Dr. Merry Lin
5 september 2024 · 57 min
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It’s a complete therapy session—in one book and one podcast! Dr. Merry Lin joins us to explain why we so often feel stuck—and how to move forward. If you’ve been confused by terms like trauma, attachment theory, the Stone Age brain, and more, Dr. Merry Lin joins us for a primer that can help us get unstuck—and rebecome who we were meant to be!
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HELP US OUT AFTER THE HACKING!
Please follow OUR NEW FACEBOOK PAGE
If you see a Facebook page called Endlessly Stories with weird images—that is our old page. Please report it!
About Dr. Merry Lin:
See her book Rebecoming
Find Dr. Merry’s website
Find Dr. Merry on Instagram
THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST:
The Orgasm Course
Self Awareness Test
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
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Episode 248: Making Faith More Tangible in the Holy Everyday feat. Karen Stiller
29 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 1 min
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What does it look like to actually grow like Christ? Like, not from a sermon, or not from some lofty retreat, but just in the here and now? Can we actually grow “holier”? A beautiful conversation with Karen Stiller, author of the book Holiness Here. We tackle envy, joy, contentment—and even grief, as she shares about processing the death of her husband.
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ABOUT KAREN
Find Karen’s book Holiness Here
Find the article Karen wrote about grief
THINGS MENTIONED IN THE PODCAST:
The post I wrote for Karen about what churches need today
Join the Bare Marriage cruise, February 2025!
The Orgasm Course
We're in the midst of revamping The Whole Story, our sex and puberty course! If you purchase it now you can still work through it, and then you'll have access to the new one when it's out in two months.
See Keith and me speak at a marriage conference in Lead, South Dakota, September 27 & 28
Check out Sheila's books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books…
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Episode 247: Ask Sheila and Rebecca Anything! We Tackle Your Questions
22 augustus 2024 · 1 uur 3 min
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Sheila and Rebecca are answering your questions today! We covered how to find a new church when you feel like church has let you down; how to start your sex life well; what to do when people don’t think purity culture was harmful; and so much more! And we throw data and nuance into the mix too.
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LINKS
Download our rubric and scorecard for the problematic books
Check out our Toolkit with handouts on all the toxic teachings, and more
The Good Girl’s/Good Guy’s Guides to Great Sex (make them the engagement gifts!)
The Great Sex Rescue
My Instagram Channel where all the questions came from
Last week’s podcast on authoritarian control
Podcast from a Pelvic Floor Physiotherapist
Support the show
Join Sheila at Bare Marriage.com!
Check out her books:
The Great Sex Rescue
She Deserves Better
The Marriage You Want and the Study Guide
The Good Girl's Guide to Great Sex
and The Good Guy's Guide to Great Sex
And she has an Orgasm Course and a Libido course too!
Check out all her courses, FREE resources, social media, books, and so much more at Sheila's LinkTree.